29th/30th Oct - XFM Halloween Spooktacular, Colchester

Get ready for a fright-filled, spook-infested, ghastly show of screams, thrills and spills as Extreme Fighting Machines take on the forces of the night in the spooky XFM Halloween Spooktacular.

On the 29th and 30th of October this amazing show is coming to Colchester in Essex and promises to frighten the life out of all who attend (audience AND roboteers alike)

Tickets will be on sale from September 5th 2005 from the XFM website, and roboteer applications to take part in the event are already open at http://www.extremefightingmachines.com/apply.htmlhttp://www.extremefightingmachines.com/apply.html

Well get more details regarding the arrangements of this show up soon, however you can expect a fully themed Halloween show from start to finish, with some surprises in store for the roboteers as well as the audience !

Details at http://www.extremefightingmachines.com/spook.htmlhttp://www.extremefightingmachines.com/spook.html

Get ready...... for the fright of your life !

Ed- XFM

Ok, the XFM website tells me its at a school but whats its name and address?

Do you think theres any chance of money (perhaps some of the prize money...) being used to cover some of the travel costs (i.e. £25 quid a team that turn up to cover travel)? All this travelling is nearly as expensive as the robots themselves!

Does it happen to be:
Stanway School
Winstree Road
Stanway
Colchester
CO3 5QA
??

Ewan, we should consider our selves lucky over on the other side of the pond it costs money to take part not the other way around!

Karoline yes correct, we cryptically put the details of the venues were at in a section on the website called Venue Info.....

As for spending prize money on travel money, if people would rather splitting the prize money across all the attending teams perhaps thats something to talk about at the next event face to face rather than on the forum ?

Ed - XFM

From the Venue Info page.....
http://www.extremefightingmachines.com/venue.htmlhttp://www.extremefightingmachines.com/venue.html
quote:

XFM 2005/6 Venue Details
129th/30th October - XFM Halloween Spooktacular, Colchester, Essex

Sitting on the south side of Colchester in Essex is the venue for the XFM Halloween Spooktacular show. Currently being redeveloped this school will soon be one of the most modern secondary schools in the area.

Their main hall provides XFM with its spooky location for this fantastic event. The school is located just off the A12, for a detailed map click here

Yeah! Thats cryptic alright!

BTW 129th October???? Now that IS spooky :proud:



(Message edited by anukhet on September 14, 2005)

(Message edited by anukhet on September 14, 2005)

Karoline, not sure whats not clear about a map marking the location of the school, and giving you the roadname, town etc ?

Have sent you a mail - hopefully I can answer any questions you might have directly.

Ed - XFM

Can we have a full address of the school for people with Sat Nav?

Mr Stu

Ok - think people are just taking the p*ss now :P

Karolines already posted the address, which I confirmed was right. The website has a link to a map, which ties in perfectly with the address Karoline posted above - to reiterate the address again though....

Stanway School
Winstree Road
Stanway
Colchester
Essex
CO3 5QA

and you can find it on a map here

http://www.multimap.com/map/browse.c...e=25000&icon=x

Where its cryptically marked as a school !

Ed - XFM

Actually the map shows schs meaning that there is more than one school
Geography OLevel grade C 1977 :proud:

Yeah correct Karoline. Dont back down girl!!

Mr Stu

.......and black belt in OS Map folding :rofl:

LOL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I have only a yellow belt in map finding. :sad:

Mr Stu

BTW as far as having different schools in one street..... where I went to school there was St Margarets Junior, Ifield Community College which consisted of Henry Pelham & Sarah Robinson Schools, there is also Manor Green Special School, Manor Green Primary and The Mill Primary.
As for me I attended St Mandys Reform School for Very Strange Girls.

*sighs* :p

See you there Ed - now that I know where Im going :)

*sighs*... Tell me about it Ed, She can be such hard work sometimes!! :)

I keeps tellin yer. Its all Johns fault!!! :)

So where is everybody staying.

Tony, were staying here....

http://www.travelodge.co.uk/find_a_hotel/hotel/hotel_id/27/ColchesterFeeringhttp://www.travelodge.co.uk/find_a_h...chesterFeering

Hi Geoff thanks just booked our rooms

oh god the roboters will be near kelvedon lol anyway My question is can you pay on the door?

Oh yes indeedy we are LOL. Its best to book via the XFM website
http://www.extremefightingmachines.co.uk/shop/http://www.extremefightingmachines.co.uk/shop/
To be quite honest it is the only way you can guarantee getting in.

Just to let yall know the finals have sold out

Ed - XFM
http://www.extremefightingmachines.comhttp://www.extremefightingmachines.com

BIG BIG CONGRATULATIONS !!!! to the....
NEW XFM COLCHESTER CHAMPIONS ...
SCORPION EVILUTION
welcome to the club !! what a great final all the best wishes ...
TEAMTILLY
(ex XFM IPSWICH CHAMPIONS )

Just wanted to add my congratulations to the Scorpion boys, certainly was an amazing final with Little Hitter really going for it all out right from the start.

I cant extend my thanks enough to the teams that took part, you all looked fantastic, so much hard work had gone into the robots makeup and into your costumes I was just worried that XFM might end up letting you all down !

Hopefully though we managed not to, and it was certainly a great end to the programme of events for this year for us. If anyone hasnt yet booked their place at the XFM Cast and Crew Christmas meal drop me a mail, weve already got loads coming - but weve no problem with as many coming as want to..... youve certainly all earnt it this year.

Take care all, and thanks again

Ed, Rick, Bob and Anne
http://www.extremefightingmachines.comhttp://www.extremefightingmachines.com

Thanks Ed. Congrats to John and Co, unfortunatly for the rest of us Evil is still alive. See you all next week.

...unfortunatly for the rest of us Evil is still alive. Of course - it WAS Halloween! Congrats to John and Geoff for a well deserved win.
Phew it was hot there! Being in costume and full face make-up was extremely uncomfortable but credit to the many kids who came along in fancy dress too - they were great.

Thanks Pete, Its nice to win one for a change!
Thanks as always to Ed & Co. for an exellent event, looking forward to more in 2006!
Unfortunatly for the rest of you Mr Wallace is quite right, Evilution is very much alive and well, just needs her teeth sharpening ready for next weekend :proud:

Geoff & John,
Team Scorpion.

Well done Geoff & John for winning and will see you next week for a rematch :) hopefully LH2s axe wont get knocked off next time, Another great XFM event and the side entertanment kept the kids happy between fights.

All, in my haste I totally forgot to award the prize for the best dressed team - was so busy giving away freebies into the audience I forgot to give out the team prize.

After much deliberation between myself, Bob and Rick we decided that the prize had to be shared between the Big Nipper team (though I use that word loosly to describe most of the Big Nipper family who attended) - robots were painted and they had matching costumes.... and also the Pillow Torque girls Jenny, Karoline and Tanja who all looked scary enough even to frighten off the most hardened roboteer !.

Will get your prizes to you asap guys - and apologies again for forgetting !

Ed - XFM

if anyone wants the picture of when big nipper hangs about from saturday afternoon its on my profile picture :proud:

Pictures and some videos on http://www.teamdragon.org.ukwww.teamdragon.org.uk on the events page.

:sad:

Lol, that Matilda fight looked great - all this talk of entry class featherweights yet all you need to do is simply put an RC toy into the arena to win :)

Mark you were right, the motor in DB5 that took an axe hit from Little Hitter still works. Was quite surprised really as there isnt much left of the broken magnet.

Shane ( DIZZY TILLY ) started fighting with his matilda toy ... Called Tilly and faught over 40 fights with her and literally took all that the featherweights could throw at her and still kept going and going and going and going ... despite coming out of the arena in pieces on more than 1 occasion ..... now retiered from compeeting due to me finally building him proper featherweights to fight with ... even now in 4 pieces she still works and would still enter the arena just a little gaffa tape and shes ready to run ... so it is possable to fight with toys but alas the novelty soon wears off and you begin to want to win ... so you will soon build a real one to fight with im sure ..... but as to the matilda toy ... THERE WILL ONLY EVER BE ONE TILLY

Guys weve got the footage of the final up and online

http://www.extremefightingmachines.co.uk/files/ColFinal.wmvhttp://www.extremefightingmachines.c...s/ColFinal.wmv is a 6Mb WMV file

http://www.extremefightingmachines.co.uk/files/ColFinal.mpeghttp://www.extremefightingmachines.c.../ColFinal.mpeg is a 25Mb MPEG file (save to PC before trying to view !)

Theres some amazing sound from within the arena, sorry about the dim-ness at times, exposure issues with the camera !

Ed - XFM
http://www.extremefightingmachines.comhttp://www.extremefightingmachines.com

Hmmmmm prize ......... at least we came away with something other than a croaked vantec :)